From Stacey: "I find this poem reassuring. For me, it's about the intimacy of cooking and eating with a loved one and how something so simple can keep real-life fears at bay. The poem, by William Matthews was first published in 1997; I read it when it appeared in the 1998 volume of Best American Poetry. Now it seems eerily prescient with the references to disasters that have come to pass."

Misgivings

"Perhaps you'll tire of me," musesmy love, although she's like a great city to me, or a park that finds newways to wear each flounce of lightand investiture of weather.Soil doesn't tire of rain, I think,

but I know what she fears: plans warp,planes explode, topsoil gets peeled away by floods. And worse than what we can't control is what we could; those drabscuttled marriages we shed sogratefully may auger we're on our owns

for good reason. "Hi, honey," chirps Dreadwhen I come through the door; "you're home."Experience is a great teacher of the value of experience, its claustrophobic prudence,its gloomy name-the-disasters-

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